Concrete ships sound like a bad idea, but Archimedes' Principle proves otherwise. Here is why engineers turned to this ...

Few things are more quintessentially Minnesotan than spending time on one of the state’s 10,000-plus lakes. With Memorial Day and summer approaching, the desire to be on the water is reaching a fever ...

Watch as we transform everyday bottles into an incredible floating boat! This creative project showcases just how resourceful we can be with recycled materials. Join us on this surprising journey and ...

A team of researchers from Institut Langevin and Sorbonne Université has shown that it is possible to float boats on both the top and underside of a suspended fluid. In their paper published in the ...

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab will be offshore of Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland for three years, in an effort to test its viability as a substrate for futuristic floating cities. JD ...

Amy McGill, left, hands a strawberry shortcake pop to Renny Nava on Lake Santa Barbara in South Pompano. The McGills in Pompano Beach spend their weekends going around the Lake Santa Barbara area and ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A view of a boat floating on the underside of a fluid levitating above air. Courtesy of Nature. A phenomenon has been ...

Shaking a liquid fast enough allows it to levitate, and a toy boat can float on top of the levitating fluid – or upside down beneath it. When a viscous fluid like silicone oil is shaken up and down ...

Summer is the perfect time for trips to the water, whether you’re a fan of the ocean, lake, river or pool. If you’ve ever wanted to turn a lazy float into something a little more epic, we’ve found the ...

Floatplanes are generally easier for general aviation pilots to transition to, offer more conventional handling, perform better on glassy water and in confined take-off areas, and are more accessible ...

Here on Earth, everything is subject to gravity—it makes objects fall to the ground and rivers flow from higher ground to the sea. We know what would happen without it, thanks to images of astronauts ...